“Vanitas Footstool,” 2023, blown, hot-sculpted, and waterjet-cut glass, leather, beads, pins, 16 x 12 x 12 in. Photo courtesy of the artist.
Teaching Artist Cohort
2025
Molly Jo Burke is a Cincinnati-based researcher, artist, and educator. Burke’s research is focused on the careers of visual artists and entrepreneurship, and specifically on what enables creatives to persist in the field. As an artist, she creates artwork concerned with issues of growth, preservation, and domesticity using traditional and nontraditional art materials. Burke received her BFA from Columbus College of Art & Design (2006), MFA with a focus in glass sculpture (2009), and her PhD in Arts Administration, Education, and Policy with a specialization in Cultural Policy and Arts Management (2024) from the Ohio State University. She has taught at the Ohio State University, Columbus College of Art & Design, and Corning Museum of Glass. Her artwork has been featured nationally and internationally, most recently at Toledo Museum of Art, Illinois Wesleyan University, Columbus Museum of Art, and the Centre Pompidou in Paris, France.
Selected works
“Vanity Vanitas,” 2023, waterjet-cut Pilkington Eclipse Gold, OptiView Ultra, MirroView, Texture Morisco, Texture Tribal, Texture Pelerine, and Texture Everglade, blown and hot-sculpted glass, glass beads, rhinestones, wallpaper, 65 x 45 x 22 in. Photo courtesy of the artist.
“In Vitreis Cruribus,” 2024, acrylic on wood, blown and hot-sculpted glass, beads, stuffed animals, fabric, 32 x 66 x 20 in. Photo courtesy of the artist.
“In Vitreis Cruribus” (hot-sculpted leg detail), 2024. Photo courtesy of the artist.
“Lavatorium Aspergillum,” 2022, wenge plywood, mortar, ceramic tile, grout, poplar, red oak, box elder maple, blown glass, Kerdi-Band, borosilicate glass, 41 x 24 x 12 in. Photo courtesy of the artist.
“Lavatorium Monstrance & Aspersorium,” 2022, acrylic on wenge plywood, blown glass, box elder maple, beads, 48 x 24 x 14 in. Photo courtesy of the artist.
“Vanitas Footstool,” 2023, blown, hot-sculpted, and waterjet-cut glass, leather, beads, pins, 16 x 12 x 12 in. Photo courtesy of the artist.
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